leggedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) +‎ -ed.

形容詞

legged (not comparable)

1. Having legs of a certain specified type or number. [from 14th c.]

   Antonym: legless

   Coordinate term: armed

   Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.

   Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:

     The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.

2. Having legs; provided with legs. [from 16th c.]

   Antonym: legless

   A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots

   • 1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111:

     Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.

   • 1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10:

     DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities

   • 2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, →ISBN, page 6:

     Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.

3. Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt. [from 18th c.]

   Coordinate terms: brained (pp. adj.), winged (pp. adj.)

   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61:

     Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!

下位語

派生語

名詞

legged (plural leggeds)

1. (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs

   Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.

語源 2

From leg (“verb”) +‎ -ed.

動詞

legged

1. simple past and past participle of leg

アナグラム

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